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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast where coming

up here on the end of the year. And I was thinking about habits, how to have better habits

in 2023. And I was going to put together a whole compilation of habits. And I thought,

you know what, I want to defer to the expert. Someone who not only talks about great habits,

but practices great habits, someone I know of immense discipline and focus. And the author

of one of the best-selling books literally in the world for the last several years running.

When discipline is destiny came out, it was the number two on the New York Times best

seller list. And I know how many copies it's all that it probably should have been number

one. It's a little tricky when you have your own bookstore. They sort of determine how

they're going to count those copies or not. But the number one spot was James Clear. And

I shut James and email us like, you can't really have sold that many copies this week.

Can you? And he was like, yeah, more or less this week, every week for like hundreds of

weeks in a row, atomic habits is just a monster of a best seller, a really, really good book.

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